So, are you saying that the hundreds of thousands of scientists over the last 150 years are complete dunderheads because they have never recognized that the underpinnings to their entire field of study was actually not scientific at all?
You see, no matter how you try to soften it, you are basically forced to portray these hundreds of thousands of scientists as being such knuckleheads that they didn't even know that their own theory wasn't even scientific!
What a bunch of idiots!
I'm sad to see people on this board continue to use this type of argument. This is a logical fallacy. A large number of people believing something does not make it true, false, likely to be true, likely to be false
You are right, of course, but I don't think that was what Schraf was saying. I read Schraf's post as saying that
if we start with the premise that ToE is not a scientific theory
then the logical conclusion is that those who believed and believe that it was and is a scientific theory are dunderheads. Faith, however, claims that those people are not necessarily dunderheads and calling the ToE non-scientific does not imply dunderheadedness.
If my reading is correct then I agree with Schraf; claiming that the ToE is not a scientific theory is implicitly calling a lot of people dunderheads.
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